Chapter Eighteen
Attack
The two rigid-hulled inflatable boats, RIBs, each powered by twin Yamaha, four stroke, outboard engines, approached slowly, one on each side of the yacht’s wake. They were low craft and ran without lights. On board each were five men, well-armed with AK-47’s and handguns. One man on each craft also carried a Taser weapon and one had a PBG rocket-launcher. Altuna was making just over ten knots through the water and as the evening security lookouts and guards, minus Clark, changed shifts, there was a short interval when there was no one watching the boat’s wake astern. In those few minutes, the trailing boats sped up and came up under the yacht’s broad stern, the first one putting four armed men on the retractable swim platform and then drawing away while the second
